My assessments, I'm afraid, are fairly conventional. Wiki, etc has helped me to recall the devilish details (always mindful of historical contexts and...
Causality is not a physical law; it's a speculative category (metaphysics) or methodological principle (epistemology applied to model theory/building ...
Since when is "mathematical induction" a physical law? (vide Hume, Popper, et al) Lost me. :roll: I can't decide - post hoc fallacy? compositional fal...
New year. New(?) nonsense ... :clap: Outside of discursive argumentation, what's wrong with "an infinite regress"? What physical law, or condition, pr...
Well-being is a concept by which we measure our ill-being No doubt Gautama or Epicurus or Spinoza or ... would agree. :death: Memento mori, memento vi...
No doubt we're drawn to philosophies with which we share questions and/or existential concerns. Hardwired to choose, no? Sure, why not? I've been told...
Teens, a strong case can be made, are, in effect, "disabled" developmentally with respect to impulsivity due to immaturation of the prefrontal cortex ...
"An act like this is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work of art. The man himself is ignorant of it. One evening he pulls the ...
I was gainfully slinging drinks (with my homie Dave, who happened to be HC's son), unpublishably scribbling, tramping around (south of the border or a...
I'd start with a comprehensive history of philosophy in order to acquaint myself with the most general questions & intractable conceptual problems maj...
• From Sorrow's Well: The Poetry of Hayden Carruth, e.d. Shaun T. Griffin • The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought, Mark Johnson • Creating Wealth: Gro...
"The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" ~Friedrich Nietzsche ?Reason's Greetings? ...
?HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE & REASON'S GREETINGS? :death: :flower: I agree with Aristotle who suggests (fuck if I can cite chapter & verse ... in the Nicho...
Someone had probably said something like this when e.g. Aristarchus proposed that the earth went around the sun or Eratosthenes, by measuring the eart...
I'm suggesting that Bob isn't committed to the welfare of his offspring whom he's using to bribe his parents with in exchange for an inheritance (i.e....
April 1966 - Is God Dead? https://images.app.goo.gl/Wgr8FLzCv4td2mQUA As for a "War on truth" ... well, once upon a time, Holy Mother Church made good...
UBI's like treating a brain tumor with heroin. In other words, it's bullshit. The social & political pathologies caused and exacerbated by structurall...
Convict and remove. Not arrested ... soon enough. (Ex-presidents who are also ex-billionaires don't get perp-walked in plastic bracelets ... Guessing ...
I think because their "actions are identical" context - to the extent intention can be plausibly surmised - matters in determining the merits of those...
Here's my two bit(coin)s: Yeah, the hype is misplaced - only for suckers. (So "don't be a sucker!" :roll: ) How can that be when trade has never, in t...
Whenever someone starts defending or drawing false equivalences to pedophilia, I bow out leaving things at let's agree to disagree about the topic at ...
:cool: For those not familiar with this line of thought: Hartle-Hawking No Boundary conjecture. (Maybe no "big bang" at all, just a white hole-like Q-...
As I pointed out (here - last paragraph), its M.O. is to "encourage" by exploitation: bribing addicts with money for their fix if they submit to being...
Not much of a counter because it misses the broader social point, namely that no politician or bureaucrat or committee is "clear-headed" enough to dec...
I'm a pessimist. Abandoned by my father as a young child but otherwise well loved and cared for by my mother et al till this day. Violated, I suppose;...
"God is so much above all that one can say nothing. You worship him better therefore through silence." ~ Angelus Silesius In the sense that Spinoza wa...
:up: I'm quite familiar with Feuerbach: we make The Maker (in our own image reflected back at us as it alienates us) which spurs us on to the infinite...
Given that g/G is undefined - undecidable - a (the) "mystery", g/G is not an (the) answer to any question whatsoever, and begs them all. A second-orde...
A map is bounded. A territory - e.g. Earth's surface - is unbounded. Maps of an unbounded territory are mere drops in the oceanic. ( beat me to it :up...
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